Jerry Bridges Quotes

Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.

Jerry Bridges

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• Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • People
  • Failure
  • Plant

• Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Want
  • Song
  • Rock

• I think I've been a great citizen.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Great
  • Think
  • Citizen

• One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Always
  • Things
  • Still

• If you don't vote, you don't count.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • You
  • Vote
  • Count

• The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Idea
  • Racial
  • Gathering

• It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Day
  • Broken
  • Stand

• I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Whatever

• I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Christian
  • Deep
  • Charity

• 'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Real
  • Comedy
  • Air

• Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Ignorance
  • Fate

• One of the limits of reality Presents itself in Oley when the hay, Baked through long days, is piled in mows. It is A land too ripe for enigmas, too serene.… Things stop in that direction and since they stop The direction stops and we accept what is As good. The utmost must be good and is…

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Good
  • Long
  • Reality

• We learn only to ask more questions.

  

  Larry Niven

• Wear things that make you happy because, I think, that really shines through. If you feel uncomfortable in something, then I don't think it ever really works.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Happy

• Parents are destined to sin against their kids; it's inevitable. As is narcissism and the human condition. Everyone has their ego and their ambitions. Life happens in between.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.

  

  David Hyde Pierce
  • Bad

• Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.

  

  Persius

• I was incredibly self-conscious about the way I looked.

  

  Janet McTeer

• At the corporation, we believe one of the most critical issues facing the country is the preparation of America's teachers, which is just not good enough. Creating a vision for change and sharing how to improve teacher preparation is something the corporation is committed to.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Country

• The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • World
  • Trying
  • Psychology

• If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Real
  • Facts
  • Statistics

• When I was about 15, I picked up the guitar and learned how to play by going through Beatles chords books. I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog.

  

  M. Ward
  • Up
  • Book
  • Play

• Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Ability
  • Patience
  • Mistreatment